creators_name: Wee, S.H.
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datestamp: 2007-09-16 02:33:35
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corp_creators: Victoria Institution Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
title: Internet Use Amongst Secondary School Students in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
ispublished: pub
full_text_status: none
keywords: Internet use; Information sources; Secondary schools; School students; Information literate; Kuala Lumpur.
abstract: This study identifies the pattern of Internet use among 608 upper secondary science students from fourteen schools in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. All schools have computers, out of which 9 have Internet facilities and 3 Internet terminals are located in the school resource centres. About 51.5 percent of respondent used the Internet. The main reasons for non-use are lack of skill and non-availability. The users mainly accessed the Net from their homes and acquired Internet skills by self-teaching or learning from friends. Slightly over 70 percent of Net users spent less than 5 hours a week on various functions, but few used it for study-related activities. The average time spent on the Internet was 4.89 hours per week. Most of the Net users (91.4 percent) explored the World Wide Web while 75.4 percent used E-mail, 52.1 percent used IRC or ICQ, 15.7 percent joined Newsgroups, 2.2 percent used it for downloading, and 0.6 percent used it for playing online games. Major problems faced were lack of skills and lack of time. The Internet was perceived to be a rich information reservoir that provides fast and efficient access to information. The majority believed that Internet did not affect their learning process, with 20.7 percent reporting a positive effect and 4.5 percent a negative effect. There were significant relationships between the use of Internet with gender, English grade, parents’ level of education, parents’ income, availability of Internet in school, and locality of Internet in school.
date: 1999-12
date_type: published
publication: Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science
volume: 4
number: 2
publisher: Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, University of Malaya
pagerange: 1-20
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1394-6234
official_url: http://ejum.fsktm.um.edu.my/ArticleInformation.aspx?ArticleID=145
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citation: Wee, S.H. (1999) Internet Use Amongst Secondary School Students in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science, 4 (2). pp. 1-20. ISSN 1394-6234